1. But while they were speaking to the people, the priests and the magistrate of the temple and the Sadducees overwhelmed them,
2. being grieved that they were teaching the people and announcing in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.
3. And they laid hands on them, and they placed them under guard until the next day. For it was now evening.
4. But many of those who had heard the word believed. And the number of men became five thousand.
5. And it happened on the next day that their leaders and elders and scribes gathered together in Jerusalem,
6. including Annas, the high priest, and Caiaphas, and John and Alexander, and as many as were of the priestly family.
7. And stationing them in the middle, they questioned them: "By what power, or in whose name, have you done this?"